Mana Ltd has always paid out all of its earnings as dividends, and hence has no retained earnings. This same situation is expected to persist in the future. The company uses the CAPM to calculate its cost of equity. Its target capital structure consists of ordinary shares, preference shares, and debt. Which of the following events would reduce the weighted average cost of capital

True or False: The following statement accurately describes how firms make decisions related to issuing new common stock. Taking flotation costs into account will reduce the cost of new common stock.   True: Taking flotation costs into account will reduce the cost of new common stock, because you will multiply the cost of new common stock by 1 minus the flotation cost—similar to how the after-tax cost of debt is calculated.   False: Flotation costs are additional costs associated with raising new common stock.     Sunny Day Manufacturing Company is considering investing in a one-year project that requires an initial investment of $475,000. To do so, it will have to issue new common stock and will incur a flotation cost of 2.00%. At the end of the year, the project is expected to produce a cash inflow of $550,000. The rate of return that Sunny Day expects to earn on its project (net of its flotation costs) is     (rounded to two decimal places).   White Lion…

A company hired you as a consultant to help estimate its cost of capital. You have obtained the following data: D0 = $2.45; P0 = $28.96; and g = 4.06% (constant). What is the cost of equity from retained earnings? Do not round your intermediate calculations. Express your answer as a percent rounded to two decimal places. (For example, 4.567% should be entered as 4.57)

Assume that your company is trying to determine its optimal capital structure, which consists only of debt and common stock. To estimate the cost of debt, the company has produced the following table: 09.86% 9.56% Percent Financed With Debt 10.16% 8.96% 9.26% 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 Percent Financed With Equity 0.90 0.80 0.70 0.60 0.50 Debt/Equity Ratio Now assume that the company's tax rate is 40 percent, that the company uses the CAPM to estimate its cost of common equity, Ks, that the risk-free rate is 5 percent and the market risk premium is 6 percent. Finally assume that if it has no debt its WACC would be equal to its cost of equity which would be equal to 11 percent (you should now be able to determine its "unlevered beta," bu). 0.10/0.90 0.11 0.20/0.80 0.25 Given this information, determine the firm's cost of capital if it finances with 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity. 0.30/0.70=0.43 0.40/0.600.67 0.50/0.50 = 1.00 Bond Rating AA A A BB B Before-Tax Cost of Debt 7.0% 7.2%…

In the Merton model of corporate equity which is based on the Black Scholes formula, what is the quantity (S0/KT)? Assume that interest rates are zero (r=0) so the time value of money can be ignored, therefore S0 = ST. (a) Debt-to-equity ratio. (b) Debt-to-assets ratio. (c) Assets-to-debt ratio. (d) Assets-to-equity ratio. (e) Equity-to-assets rati

1. Which of the following is not a component used in calculating the cost of capital? A. The cost of short-term debt. B. The cost of common stock. C. The cost of long-term debt. D. The cost of retained earnings.   2. Which of the following statements about cost of capital is false? A. The overall cost of capital is the minimum rate a firm must earn on all investments to cover capital costs. B. The overall cost of capital is the cost of the firm's equity capital at which the market value of the firm will remain unchanged. C. Cost of capital is based on what the company pays for its capital, not the return earned on the capital employed. D. The overall cost of capital is the weighted average cost of the various debt and equity components in a firm's capital structure.

Wyden Brothers uses the CAPM to calculate the cost of equity capital. The company’s capital structure consists of common stock, preferred stock, and debt. Which of the following events will reduce the company’s WACC? a) A reduction in the market risk premium. b) An increase in the risk-free interest rate. c) An increase in the beta of the company’s stock. d) An increase in expected inflation. e) An increase in the flotation costs associated with issuing preferred stock.

Which of the following statements refers to the unlevered cost of capital? the interest tax shield times pretax net income. the cost of capital for a firm that has no equity in its capital structure. equal to the profit margin for a firm with some debt in its capital structure. the cost of capital for a firm that has no debt in its capital structure. the cost of preferred stock for a firm with equal parts debt and common stock in its capital structure.

Eaton Electronic Company's treasurer uses both the capital asset pricing model and the dividend valuation model to compute the cost of common equity (also referred to as the required rate of return for common equity). Assume: Rf Km = 8% = 6% = В D₁ = $0.60 Po = $20 8 = 5% = 1.8 a. Compute K; (required rate of return on common equity based on the capital asset pricing model). Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Ki 0.10% b. Compute Ke (required rate of return on common equity based on the dividend valuation model). Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Input your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Ke %

In many instances, book value, rather than market value, may be used to determine the weighted average cost of capital. This is because of all of the following EXCEPT ____,   a. the market prices of the various sources of capital are not easily estimated   b. book value is a more accurate value in determining the actual cost of capital   c. market values change daily   d. many firms have several different issues of debt which may not be publicly held